Samsung NX 200 versus rival model with similar score

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The Samsung NX20 is a good ‘Hybrid’ APS-C camera, it is a pretty good APS-C camera, and actually it’s not a bad camera by any standards! Unfortunately for the Samsung it is surrounded by other good cameras and needs something special to make it not just a good camera but a successful camera.

Launched in September 2011, the Samsung NX200 marks a significant point in the NX line because it features an all-new APS-C CMOS sensor with 20.3megapixels. Among the hybrid cameras, this is about as big as sensors currently get, so Samsung are aiming at the high ground, a fact confirmed by the premium feel all-metal body – a first in the NX-series.

The Samsung NX200 is the company's fifth NX camera but only the third body design, and represents a significant step up for the series. It's built around a completely new 20.3MP APS-C CMOS sensor and wrapped in the series' first all-metal body. The result is a handsome camera of similar size to Sony's NEX models but one that takes a rather different approach.

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Re: Incomplete comparison

Hi,

Thanks for your interest in DxOMark.

If you are referring to the Fuji X cameras, you probably know that they do not use a Bayer matrix but a “X-Trans” matrix. We will try to test this sensor, but although we try to respond to your requests to provide tests for specific camera models, there are no plans for doing it in the short term.

Re: Incomplete comparison

Hi,

Thanks for answering. I don't know the details of your protocol, but I don't understand why the X-trans matrix prevents you to test it in usual way. Still, this fact means than no APS-C format product from Fuji can be tested, which is sad.

Ouch

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Re: Ouch

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<div id="linkdxomark">This a comment for <a href="http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Cameras/Camera-Sensor-Database/Samsung/NX-200">this page on the website</a></div>Awful sensor and cooked files to make it even worse

maybe high iso is noisy but color depth and dynamic range are not bad among the cameras in this segment.

Re: Ouch

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<div id="linkdxomark">This a comment for <a href="http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Cameras/Camera-Sensor-Database/Samsung/NX-200">this page on the website</a></div>Awful sensor and cooked files to make it even worse

The score seems to say otherwise ... compared to other mirrorless cameras announced in the same period of time (many months ago, by the way) only the NEX sensor was better.